4.3 Career Goals

4.3 Career goal

The past six months had been a fulfilling journey for me as I was able to discover my strengths and weaknesses. Through this internship, I was able to get first-hand experience of how is it like to be an auditor. At the same time, because of the nature of my work I was able to gain an insight into the work of commercial accountants. Hence, internship has better shaped my career goal and allowed me to be more aware of my strength and weaknesses.

My career goal is to land an accounting job in a firm and eventually working my way up to be a financial comptroller. My career goal is very different from what I have chosen to do for internship. The reason why I chose to go into the audit field for internship is to experience how it is like to be looking at a company’s financial position from an outsider’s perspective. Over the three years in Ngee Ann’s accountancy course, I found myself to

However, one of my weakness is that my technical skill is not strong enough as I have only learnt accounting for three years. In addition, we were taught in polytechnic are only the foundation to

I had to think for a while before being able to give them an answer. Thus in order to achieve my career goal, I will need to brush up on my technical knowledge and be a recognized accountant. Hence, I will be furthering my studies in university. After attaining my degree, I hope I will be able to have sound technical knowledge that will increase my chances of getting an accounting job in an organization. Once I have settled down in the new job, I will then enroll myself for professional papers to become a chartered accountant to further expand my accounting knowledge and gain recognition in the accounting